Signed by author First Edition Copy #177 of 1,000 Limited Edition Signed by author on title page and a second time on limitation page Also includes program from 1970 art exhibition Wings of Morning, Noon and Night: A Celebration in Song and Image by Dorothy Brown. 1970 First Printing. Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies signed by Dorothy Brown . From University of California: Dorothy Woodhead Brown 1899-1973 Professor Emeritus Dorothy Woodhead Brown was born in Houston, Texas and educated at Stanford University and at UCLA, where she received a bachelor's degree in art. She taught first at the Barnsdall Art Center and from 1947 until her retirement in 1969 in the art department at UCLA. Still earlier in her career, she had also been a feature writer for Script Magazine and from that time on continued to actively write and publish on art subjects. Dorrie, as she was affectionately known to her many friends and associates, was ranked among the foremost women painters on the West Coast, but she also enjoyed a national reputation as an artist. During her long professional career she had some thirty one-man shows, participated in at least thirty-six invitational exhibitions and forty juried shows, and was the recipient of twelve purchase prizes and awards. Following her retirement from UCLA, she organized a one-man show of her work which toured the country for over a year. In 1956 Dorrie received The Woman of the Year in Art honor from the Los Angeles Times. She actively participated in many professional art associations including, preeminently, the National California Watercolor Society, serving as its first woman president; the American Watercolor Society; and the Los Angeles Art Association. She lectured extensively on a wide range of art subjects. To satisfy her own creative needs she studied and gathered extensive research materials during her numerous trips to Europe and the Orient as well as in this country, including Alaska and Mexico. Although she was primarily committed to painting, she was also deeply involved in many other interests on a professional level: poetry, teaching, and the development of her art collection. She valued many friends and maintained an extensive correspondence with them. Above all she had a deep love for nature--especially the sea--but all life forms served as the basic sources for her creative work in all media. Very important to her, too, was her husband, Harold Austin Brown, with whom she shared fifty years of marriage until his death in December 1972.? 16 ? The special quality that perhaps describes Dorrie best is revealed in the character of her creative work, for in it she laid herself bare; her work confronts the viewer with her deeper perceptions and inner-most feelings and with it her personal philosophy and involvement with life. Lorser Feitelson, artist, teacher, writer, and lecturer, perhaps best summarized her work as follows: Dorothy Brown is consistently an expressive and painterly painter. Free from fixed opinion, or the imposition of the prejudice of the movement, she avoids dogmatism and scepticism. Taking full advantage of the possibilities of subjective and abstract imagery, she transmits, rather than abandons, objective forms. Free from eclecticism, she yet creates an art that possesses more than one category of values. Her reality is expressed in terms of feeling; simultaneously, what is felt is harmoniously integrated into an order that also gives formal satisfaction. Dorrie was a unique and personal teacher who always maintained the highest standards of her profession. Good teachers have their special strengths. Dorrie had the ability and the patience to seek out and encourage students to learn to develop and use their sensibilities and personal feelings in confronting pictorial problems. She brought focus to the interrelationship of nature and vision with the artistic process. Pre-owned, good condition